Ecwid Features Digest Spring 2017

This spring Ecwid hit a milestone of 1.5 million registered merchants — and we’ve been working hard on delivering the best e-commerce experience to all of you. Don’t have an Ecwid account yet? Sign up for free to start selling on your website, social media, marketplaces and in physical stores.

Here are some of the latest features that we have brought to the Ecwid stores this season:

Enhanced SEO: New SEO-friendly URLs

Free SSL (security) certificates for any domain

Ecwid Control Panel Dashboard updates

Payments: Square + Ecwid is now available in the UK and Japan

Updates to the Ecwid Mobile App for iOS and Android

Ecwid updates for Wordpress, Joomla and Weebly

New apps to connect to in the Ecwid App Market

API updates for developers

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New SEO-friendly URLs

SEO is a strong tool for driving traffic to your store and is a powerful resource for free promotion. Knowing that we are continuously working on SEO improvements for Ecwid stores. Earlier, we released manual meta-tags and now is the time to update your store links to make them even more SEO friendly as Google reps have recommended.

The updated Ecwid URLs are free from extra characters such as #, !, /, and are indexed higher by search engines. People can understand them better now, too.

Have a look around our demo store to get the idea of how the new URLs are working.

Click on the Use your domain field and follow the instructions that appear on-screen.

If you your Ecwid store is built in a Wix, WordPress, Joomla, Adobe Muse or another website, your customers’ data is safe, too. Since Ecwid handles the payment, all the data is kept and processed on Ecwid’s own servers. This means that all sensitive data processing happens outside your site. Our servers are securely protected by an SSL certificate which keeps your customers’ data safe.

Ecwid Control Panel Dashboard Updates

We aren’t stopping there. This spring, as a part of this big dashboard renovation, we updated the sales page even more, polished the order editor and refreshed the payments page. And we’re still going. Stay tuned for more updates to your Ecwid Control Panel.

Sales page

In the previous features digest, we introduced the new sales page. It’s a mobile responsive, clean page with new features like mass updates and an order editor.

Now, we’ve updated it even more and added useful fields to the order list, based on your feedback.

Improved order editor

If you want to edit an order, go to your Sales page and click Update order → Edit order. Now the order editor will open in a popup, not in a new window. This way, you can edit your orders more quickly and within fewer actions. Bonus: we improved the loading speed of the order editor so now it’s way faster.

Mobile: New Versions of Ecwid for iOS and Android

Are you traveling this summer? Get Ecwid for iOS and Android to run your store while you are on-the-go. Here’s what you can do with the latest mobile app features:

iOS

Add dashboard widgets and get your real-time sales stats on the home screen

View active discount coupons and pause them when needed

Your product description drafts now auto-save so you’ll never lose your work

Add featured products to the homepage to boost the products you want to sell most

Create a store right on your smartphone

Android

Find products, sales and assign tracking codes with a barcode scanner

Automatically mark an order as shipped with a barcode scanner

Scan a barcode to find a sale, open an order and change its status

Ecwid on WP, Joomla, Weebly: What’s New

Here are the major updates that we have made to Ecwid on WordPress, Joomla and Weebly:

WordPress

Updated URLs for SEO and enhanced canonical tags. We launched SEO-friendly URLs to help search engines, as well as people, find your store. The updated URLs are indexed higher by Google and can be browsed easily by customers. Don’t worry, your old URLs will automatically redirect to the updated version, so your customers won’t get lost along the way.

You might be thinking, how does Google know which links to index — the old ones or new ones?

This is solved with canonical tags — a piece of code that points search engines to the link that should be treated as the exemplary one. Canonical tags help:

Lower the number of duplicates in search results

Index your updated URLs instead of the old ones

Faster loading storefront. The plugin now loads much quicker for your visitors and search engines.

Stay tuned for all the updates of your Ecwid plugin for WordPress in the changelog.

Joomla

We’ve released v3 of the Ecwid extension with these major updates:

Updated URLs and canonical tags on store pages (details above)

Updated Design Settings: Now you can find all the design settings on one and the same page of your Ecwid dashboard — no need to refer to the Ecwid plugin settings. If you want the colors of your store to automatically match your website theme, you can enable this mode in your Ecwid Control Panel through Settings → Design. Be sure to read our comprehensive guide on changing your Ecwid store design, too.

Various bug fixes and minor improvements

Weebly

If you sell online with Ecwid on Weebly, it’s now easier than ever to enable Color Adaptive Mode. No need to enable it separately in the application, just go to Ecwid Control Panel → Settings → Design, click Enable Color Adaptive Mode and the colors of your store will automatically match the color theme of your website.